"Bad news is good news"

Really?

“Could you write about something that’s not sad?”

“No one loves the messenger who bringsbad news”.

Gazeta Wyborcza @ HackdaysElżbieta Ruebenbauer, Cezary Średnicki, Jakub Szestowicki

The more positive an article, the more likely it was to be shared [in social media].

Gazeta Wyborcza’s Inbox

Jonah Berger, a social psychologist, University of Pennsylvania

Sophocles, Antigone

VIDE Visual Interactive Data Explorervide latin: 1. seem, seem good, appear, be seen; 2. consider; 3. see, look at

Idea

Visual news explorer that respects user’s

mood

User gets what he/she wants

mockup

VIDE Visual Interactive Data Explorer

Result

User selects his/her mood

If user is sad, VIDE cuts off the bad news

our app

VIDE (Visual Interactive Data Explorer)

Idea

Image-centric User Interface

User gets content filtered by #tags

User can always change mood and #tags

mockup

VIDE (Visual Interactive Data Explorer)

our app

Result

User sees a wall of images refering to stories

User can choose content by simple #tags: all news

(#wyborcza), event (#hackdays), #world

or #local news

User can switch his/her mood by choosing icon

VIDE (Visual Interactive Data Explorer)

Idea

One image means more than 1000 words

Sometimes users prefer to read/see the whole stories

People like to share GOOD stories

mockup

VIDE (Visual Interactive Data Explorer)

our app

Result

User can enlarge images

User cansee the picture

with the headline or go to the whole story

User can share the article on Facebook

VIDE (Visual Interactive Data Explorer)

Our app is fully done.You can see

our demo

Thanks:)